Module Hell

On the first day of school, I set up a Yahoo Group for our class. By 4th quarter, we had all but about 3 people signed up as "members" of the group. Yay! So, via the site, we have this "study group" set up. It's pretty cool.

Each week, and for each class, we have a "module." Actually, sometimes there are more than 1 module, but not this quarter as far as I can tell. So, a student will sign up to complete a single module, which consists of questions that we should be able to answer after we complete the reading for that week. There may be 5 questions, or there may be 15 questions - you just never know. So, the student who signs up for the module completes the questions and posts them to a file on the group site. Then, everyone can print them out and use them for studying. One major rule is that EVERYONE has to do their own reading. Another rule is that if a student doesn't understand the answer to a question, it is up to them to figure it out. The other student has already done the work and can't always make 39 other students happy with his/her answers.

For the most part, the students who sign up are pretty hard workers. We only had 1 person sign up who did not complete their module last quarter, and that was after the person had dropped the program. Slackers pretty much don't even sign onto the group site - I think it works out pretty well.

So anyway, the good news is that I signed up for the 1st module for our main class and got the stuff posted today - I'm DONE with modules for the whole quarter!!!!! Yayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!
That also means that I have completed all of the reading (for this week) prior to school even starting. I'm pretty proud of that because I haven't really gotten this far before. I've had high hopes but little drive... haha.

Ok, so it really wasn't "hell." It might have been one of the easier modules, but since I haven't looked at all of them, I don't know. But I am so happy that I had nipped it in the bud and did mine early! It's just one stress that I don't have to worry about for the entire quarter.

But I certainly DO have to read and study!! "One module completed" does NOT mean "NO MORE WORK!"

For any of my fellow students who might read this.... thanks for helping with the modules - we ROCK!